Talking on the Page

The Worlds Of Readers And Writers On The One Hand And Listeners And speakers on the other differ in many ways. What happens when the stories, beliefs, or histories of North American Native people, many of them traditionally communicated in oral form, are transferred to paper or other media? Why do tellers, teachers, editors. filmmakers, and translators undertake this work? What do the words mean for different audiences? How can they be most effectively and responsibly presented and interpreted? This collection of proceedings from the thirty-second annual Conference on Editorial Problems addresses these and other issues inherent in attempting to record oral cultures for a visual society. The book contains an introduction by the editors, and articles by Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer, Kimberly Blaeser, J. Edward Chainberlin, Victor Masayesva Jr., and Julie Cruikshank.

LAURA J. MURRAY is Assistant Professor, Department of English, Queen's University. KEREN D. RICE is Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto.